567PrimeMover @ 567PrimeMover @kbin.social

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Yeah, that's a good point. But in that example there's at least a relationship between advertiser and content creator. The content creator is showing their audience an ad in return for money from the sponsor.

Anyone advertising on lemmy right now is just getting free ad space. There's no relationship between the advertiser and the platform/content creator. They don't give the platform money for better servers, nor do they give creators money to create engaging content. They're more akin to a parasite than anything of benefit.

I feel like “sponsored” implies that Lemmy (be it instance admins or any platform devs) are getting something out of it, which I don’t think is the case. Right now if advertisers are signing up and posting ads i see that as no different than junk mail in my email inbox. It’s garbage that benefits no one at best and actively harms the platform at worst.

And if Lemmy does decide to take advertiser dollars, they better step carefully. That’s one of the places the slippery slope fallacy actually does apply. I do NOT want the fediverse to turn into Reddit 2.0

Ubuntu was my first. I got a copy of 7.04 from the IT instructor at a local tech school during a field trip back in high school. I had no idea what linux was before then. I would boot the live cd on the family computer and mess around with it since I didn't have one of my own. I was finally able to get a hand-me-down windows 98 PC from my aunt and installed my copy of 7.04 on that right away. Got my dad to run some ethernet up to my room and I was living like royalty after that.

I've tried about every distro under the sun since those days, but Ubuntu always feels like home

Yeah totally, makes me want to discuss init systems for some reason.

By the way, which init is your favorite?

"It's starting to become self aware, get another from the vat"

Turns out we were the M&Ms in the candy death royale all along

First there was hydrohomies and now there's watersluts

No it's got what plants crave

That's a good policy to have even if it's something mundane like an abandoned house. It prevents people from breaking in and wrecking up the place or getting hurt/arrested

Water? Like in the toilet?

You could also convert portions of your lawn to something like clover, which will be more "lawn" like while being much better for pollinators

"...and remember guys, if you liked this comment please UPVOTE and GILD!!!!!!"

Kinda feel like wages and medical bills would be a non issue, since you're in a post-scarcity economy and get free healthcare I assume everywhere in the federation. But damn if they don't make up for that with unfortunate deaths

Oh my god they were roommates

What the hell why's this one in a jar?

I would love to see a social media network run under this model, and I think lemmy, kbin, etc are great candidates for that. The decentralized nature of the fediverse allows costs and user load to get spread out to other instances, vs. something centralized which concentrates all that on one org/person. I feel that makes a donation only system much more attainable

Yup, I got "this website has been seized by reddit for copyright infringment". Very mature

I was curious what a "cup of coffee" is, and according to healthline that would be about 8oz (227ml) which could deliver anywhere from 70-140mg of caffeine depending on type of coffee and how you brew.

So if you drink a lot of coffee (like me) you consume a shit ton of caffeine... damn.